Artist	Song
4 Hero	Planetaria (Hefner mix)
Ursula Rucker	Circe (Jazzanova remix)
4 Hero	We Who Are Not As Others (Jazzanova remix)
Beatless	To Expand
Har-You Percussion Ensemble	Welcome to the Party
State of Bengal	Burn Your Toes (instrumental mix)
St. Ernesto	Easy Inn (Kyoto Jazz Massive remix)
Eternal Sun	6/8 Drums (Faithless Yoro-Pean Drumz mix)
Da Lata	Binti
Chari Chari	Black Shrine (Waiwan remix)
Incognito	Port Louis (United Future Organization remix)
Kyoto Jazz Massive	Eclipse

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Plasma has been on my mind lately. Not the big screen TV, of which the prices are quite extraordinary for the size you can get now. No, instead it's the universal plasma, the fourth state of matter along with solids, liquids and gases. While unfamiliar to most people, plasma is the most common phase of matter in the universe. It's everywhere: Stars are luminous balls of plasma, and diffuse plasma pervades the space between stars.
Apparently the skies (or heavens) looked a lot different in ancient times than they do today, which many scientists now surmise accounts for the belief in dragons and gods from people in past centuries. "Were it possible for us to stand alongside our early ancestors, to witness the events that provoked human imagination in ancient times, the celestial dramas would exceed anything conceivable today. The sky was electric, filled with luminous clouds, threads of light, and undulating rivers of fire. To today's observer the events could only appear too vast, too improbable for anything but a dream". This comes from a paper written by a group of scientists from M.I.T.
It turns out there is nothing in the recurring attributes of the dragon that cannot be explained by plasma discharge. According to the same scientific group, "The creature is constituted of fire or "breathes" fire. It displays long-flowing "hair" or "feathers," a telltale feature of plasma discharge. That its writhing form appears in the sky as chaos and darkness overtake the world is exactly what we should expect of a high energy discharge event."
Far out! And that's not all. Electrically charged specks of interstellar dust organize into DNA-like double helixes and display properties normally attributed to living systems, such as evolving and reproducing, new computer simulations show. But scientists are hesitant to call the dancing dust particles "alive," and instead say they are just another example of how difficult it is to define life.
I was just looking for the consumer report on the best TV to buy and look what I found. Dragons, gods and monsters. From that point, this mix took on a life of its own. By the way, it is likely not in the dance/house genre - more a mixture of electronic and organic "beat" styles. On its test run, I sat outside and gazed into the sky, searching for signs of plasmatic life.
Quiz: To win a free copy of the mix, tracked and with artwork, answer the following question. Which artist has remixed songs for the likes of Bjork, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and Massive Attack?

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